THE BROWNINGS: LETTERS & POETRY

This is a lovely book. First edition of this series.

From the introduction by Christopher Ricks:

In this generously replete anthology, the International Collectors Library offers this selection of the poetry of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, together with fifty of the letters in which the pair carried on their courtship under the nose of Elizabeth's tyrannical father -- including the brief, frenzied notes in which they made arrangements for their secret marriage and their elopement to the Continent. Among the works of Elizabeth included here are, of course, the exquisite Sonnets from the Portuguese, celebrating the perfect union of herself and her lover; excerpts from Aurora Leigh; and complete versions of more than two dozen other poems. Robert Browning is represented by one hundred or so poems, with excerpted portions of The Ring and the Book and Pippa Passes, plus complete versions of Andrea del Sarto, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, Fra Lippo Lippi, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, and many others. Here is a worthwhile anthology which every lover of fine poetry will enjoy and cherish.

It is light brown leather, or leatherette (I can't tell).

It has a gilt design on the cover and spine and a bound-in silk bookmark.

It has clearly not been opened, or read. And at 2 lbs, it's surprisingly light.

The original owner put a bookplate on the inside front cover and then crossed out his/her name. You can either put a label over that or steam off the bookplate.

Other than that, it's in absolutely pristine condition.

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